Day Three Hundred Thirty Six I've been doing lots of driving lately (I wasn't driving when I took this pic, though), so haven't had lots of time to take photos. Later in the evening on Thursday this last week, I got to be the passenger, so set up some long exposures on the dash. This one was the intersection at Central and San Pedro, 20 seconds.

Day Three Hundred Thirty Seven Once again, not much time for photos. This was late evening, waiting to get dinner out. Restaurant from the drive-thru; on my hand, on the dash - 16 seconds.

Day Three Hundred Thirty Eight Wasn't overly impressed with any of my photos from today, so here's a fractal image I made instead ;p

Day Three Hundred Thirty Nine First time "rollerskating"

Day Three Hundred Forty Papa plays the guitar and sings, little guy dances with his toucan broom

Day Three Hundred Forty One Playing around with some Hwy 550 panoramic shots; ended up with this weird insect/alien face

Day Three Hundred Forty Two Visited one of my old schools to do some presentations. It looks pretty creepy in this pic, haha. In all fairness, this is back behind some of the less used buildings. It really hasn't changed much since I was there last, though they are in the process of building a new school to help with the increased number of students they now have.

Day Three Hundred Forty Three It's beginning to look a lot like... Rainbow BEETS!

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Day Three Hundred Forty Five New House

Day Three Hundred Forty Six Metal Mantis Christmas

Day Three Hundred Forty Seven Messy Hair, Slippers on Hands kind of day

Day Three Hundred Forty Eight Outreach today at my old school! The school is now only Pre-K thru 3rd grade. I did fractal presentations for the K-3rd graders, about 40 in total. The 3rd graders pictured here were discussing comma usage on my slide... haha

Day Three Hundred Fifty Duck Face, Cow Chair

Day Three Hundred Fifty One You won't find me taking landscape photos within the city often... too many buildings, power lines, signs, etc, but I couldn't NOT take this shot, despite the houses in the foreground. Spotlights on the Sandias

Day Three Hundred Fifty Two Batman's newest transportation: the fierce Bubble Dog Cruiser

Day Three Hundred Fifty Three ... And Batman's new sidekick. They met while shopping for boots (turns out they shop at the same store) and decided to team up to fight crime.

Day Three Hundred Fifty Four "The white place", Plaza Blanca near Dar Al Islam mosque, Abiquiu

Day Three Hundred Fifty Five Icicles at dawn

Day Three Hundred Fifty Six Little dude has been practicing yoga with his papa; no one likes getting snapped in savasana, but I couldn't help it.

Day Three Hundred Fifty Seven Visited the aquarium. Just in time for the feeding session in the big tank. The diver was feeding the stingrays and petting them just like huge, oddly-proportioned water puppies... cute :)

Day Three Hundred Fifty Eight Steampunk Family Portrait 2016

Day Three Hundred Fifty Nine Christmas Eve bubbles

Day Three Hundred Sixty Took some long exposure, trailing images of the lights on the way home, then messed around with the pics. This one looked like an illuminated photo frame. I'll probably use it as such in the future.

Day Three Hundred Sixty One Trying to get my old Nikon working again so the guys can use it on our upcoming trip. (I'll probably want to use it, too - the zoom is great, though I'm pretty spoiled using cameras with non-fixed lenses now.) Got the shutter working again, so took some of the shots and make kaleidoscopes out of them, though the aspect ratio is different than on my Sony, so the Photoshop actions didn't work quite the same, leaving spaces in between each quadrant. Still excited that the old camera is working again!

Day Three Hundred Sixty Two Phone shopping...

Day Three Hundred Sixty Three A little under the weather today, so just getting caught up on things in between resting. Didn't really take many photos today. Here's a modified 'White place' pic

Day Three Hundred Sixty Four Winter Meditation

Day Three Hundred Sixty Five River of Lights Light Birds enjoying the Laser Snow

Day Three Hundred Sixty Six "Mama, it's raining popcorn! Let's eat it!"

2017, Day One Welcome, New Year! I'm going to be honest, I'm quite happy that the 2016 Photo-a-day has come to a close. I enjoyed the project. The biggest challenge most days was actually getting around to posting the images. These days, it is more important to me to spend time with my family than to get online and post stuff. While I'll more than likely be carrying my camera around with me mostly every day this year, I'm not going to post photos from each day. I'm going to focus on quality rather than quantity for 2017. I'm planning on pursuing my creative interests to a greater degree this year (hello, neglected painting materials...). I feel like this year is off to a great start: I got to hang up my new calendar that has some of my photos in it (and I didn't make this one :p), and we have a real family vacation planned for this month - celebrating both Mike's and my birthdays out of the country. My new, professionally designed photography service website will be ready to share very soon (!!!). I'm looking forward to trying out new culinary adventures throughout the year, and started it off right by making some mini avocado quiches for dinner tonight. I look forward to spending time with family, friends, and creative people this year, getting together and workong on some great projects! -Emma

Day Three Hundred Six Playing at the park and this one tree was perfectly illuminated by a natural spotlight - a break in the clouds, only for a moment.

Day Three Hundred Seven Bosque del Apache

Day Three Hundred Eight I found a beautiful sunbeam today, and a peacock feather was lying nearby, so...

Day Three Hundred Nine The Natural History museum had a special event tonight - the StartUp Sendoff (the StartUp Computer Revolution exhibit is going away); next to the Fractal Foundation booth I was working, this man from Intel was set up giving candy away. You had to use the robotic arm to pick up the candy. One of the ladies was trying to give her candy to the Intel guy.

Day Three Hundred Ten The persimmon tree is turning these beautiful shades of red and deep orange, almost otherworldly-looking with its red leaves and orange fruit. I love it! The beauty of nature is incredible.

Day Three Hundred Eleven One of my favorite gatherings in the area - the Dia de los Muertos Marigold parade down in the South Valley. So much fun to dress up and honor ancestors and celebrate together. I loved these milk jug skeletons these guys built :)

Day Three Hundred Twelve I was messing around with this big crystal (the kind you hang in the window to cast rainbows all over the room), using it to shoot light patterns onto things to photograph. I found that it fit perfectly into my macro lens and gave this ghostly, multiple-exposure effect. Can't wait to try out some more multi-faceted portraits

Day Three Hundred Thirteen Off to the bosque today to shoot some awesome (and hilarious) humanoid/insect chrysalis transformation scenes in the golden cottonwoods.

Day Three Hundred Fourteen More multiple-exposure-looking portraits with the crystal. It is definitely harder the more your subject moves around...

Day Three Hundred Fifteen Working on the house...

Day Three Hundred Sixteen Working on the house: Part II - cleaning the furnace

Day Three Hundred Seventeen At the Handsome Family album release party - Sat, Nov. 12th

Day Three Hundred Eighteen Downtown ABQ at night; not creepy, not not creepy...

Day Three Hundred Nineteen I went out to get some pics of the supermoon, but I guess I missed the "super" rise, so it looked, well, just like the moon (and I love the moon, but I have lots and lots of pictures of the full moon, and they just all start looking the same...). The plants were casting shadows on the curtains, so I crept around outside my house taking photos of the windows.

Day Three Hundred Twenty My 'classroom' for the day was the fabulous Ilfeld Auditorium in Las Vegas. I had several hours in between my presentations, so I went out and explored the town a bit, mostly in the dark.

Day Three Hundred Twenty One / Day Three Hundred Twenty Two (below) I didn't take any photos today or yesterday - the second and third days this year that I didn't. I did, however, get caught up on some personal editing projects, so yay for small successes? Here you go, a couple photos that I edited from outings this summer - one in Cloudcroft, one at Meow Wolf (below).

Day Three Hundred Twenty Three Up in Taos today teaching classes at the high school. Stopped by to visit the river on my way home.

Day Three Hundred Twenty Four It's been a loooong week. It's about all the energy I can muster to take a stupid selfie for my photo of the day. I wish my hair looked more like Encino man's, but I guess it captures my remaining enthusiasm for the evening. Off to tea tomorrow!

Day Three Hundred Twenty Five Trimming the rose bush and harvesting the rose hips this afternoon.

Day Three Hundred Twenty Six Onward! Let us build our rocket ships (metaphorically or otherwise).

Day Three Hundred Twenty Seven Abiquiu hills lit up in the storm

Day Three Hundred Twenty Eight Bug obsession at the museum...

Day Three Hundred Twenty Nine Boys bouncing balls down the stairs

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Day Three Hundred Thirty One Drying leaves on the Bodhi tree

Day Three Hundred Thirty Two We went ice skating at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center for my sister's birthday. These figures were hanging on the inside walk.

Day Three Hundred Thirty Three Creepy Elephant

Day Three Hundred Thirty Four Driving back from Cuba today; had to stop several times to try and capture the landscape. So beautiful. The light was incredible. It snowed all night there, so the hills closest to Cuba were snow covered and shining bright white in the setting sun. As I came closer to San Ysidro, the snow was gone, but the colors of the layers of earth were vibrant.

Day Three Hundred Thirty Five Not too many pics from today. I saw this pretty tree with red berries that was nicely lit up in the evening sun, so I took a photo of it. The red berries stood out against the blue sky. In messing around with it, I decided I liked the sky a red color as well, and then made it into a kaleidoscope image. I liked the finished product more than the initial photo, so here it is

Day Two Hundred Seventy Four Oct. 1st - Photographed a beautiful wedding out in the Sandia mountains.

Day Two Hundred Seventy Five Oct. 2nd - Second day of El Rito Studio Tour; Descanso at Sunset

Day Two Hundred Seventy Six Never know when a cape, sand bucket and shovel, Minnie Mouse bag with transformer action figure, and blow up beach ball will come in handy...

Day Two Hundred Seventy Seven First Balloon Fiesta Ever!!! The view is great ;)

Day Two Hundred Seventy Eight Despite the look on her face, Koni Chihua will allow for being carried all over the back yard in this fashion. I think she secretly likes it.

Day Two Hundred Seventy Nine Thursday, Oct. 6th: Crewing again for SkyDyes at Desert Kaleidoscope - Special Shapes morning

Day Two Hundred Eighty Fri, Oct. 7th: Took the whole family out for crewing this am: the beautiful Gloria :)

Day Two Hundred Eighty One Sandwiched in between hours of rain on both sides, the ceremony this afternoon went off without a hitch (except that the bride and groom ARE hitched, now ;) ) Nice event, out in the North Valley (ironically close to the Balloon Fiesta park). Off to enjoy some tea and homemade zucchini bread while I get back into the editing.

Day Two Hundred Eighty Two Got a giant fennel bulb in my CSA delivery this week. Initially, I didn't have any ideas on how to use it, but luckily got the bright idea to wear it as a hat and take old-fashioned, eroded photos.

Day Two Hundred Eighty Three Mixed feelings in this new space, the space formerly known as Blue... The light was spectacular, though.

Day Two Hundred Eighty Four Spinning the Sky This spider was spinning its web in the evening sunlight, just outside my side gate. The web glistened against the sky. We watched her work for quite some time.

Day Two Hundred Eighty Five Urban Landscapes - Rainbow and Powerlines

Day Two Hundred Eighty Six Little Guys and Mighty Machines

Day Two Hundred Eighty Seven Edible Jewels

Day Two Hundred Eighty Eight This is what happens when you take close-ups of a three-year-old eating a pomegranate. Oh well, lens needed cleaning anyway.

Day Two Hundred Eighty Nine Trimming the Tree

Day Two Hundred Ninety First Persimmon, Full Moon Night

Day Two Hundred Ninety One Balloon Atoms and Dancing Ghosts

Day Two Hundred Ninety Two Slow photo day, when you're taking pictures of the helium balloon floating around the house at equilibrium, then using the 'plastic-wrap' filter on said balloon photos...

Day Two Hundred Ninety Three Even the most mundane scenes can be transformed by the quality of light...

Day Two Hundred Ninety Four Yet another example of how beautiful light transforms an otherwise average locale...

Day Two Hundred Ninety Five Our crayfish, Gumbo, molted, so we got to talk about exoskeletons. On a completely unrelated topic, my son asked me "What are you going to do today, Mama? Take over the world?" Maybe tomorrow, son, maybe tomorrow.

Day Two Hundred Ninety Six The leaves are changing, so many beautiful hues all around... Time for some golden cottonwood fun in the bosque! These layers upon layers of leaves on my trumpet vine in the most delicate shade of yellow were lit up in the most magical way. Oddly enough, I liked the shot better in black and white. Some days are just like that.

Day Two Hundred Ninety Seven We have this vine growing in the back corner of our yard. It is very happy there. So happy that it is encroaching on the three bordering yards, so I chopped all the rogue bits back. I was left with a huge pile of tangled vine. I'd been wanting to do one of those 'huge dress' shots, so I went in and grabbed the ladder and covered it in vines, and viola! A huge vine dress.

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Day Two Hundred Ninety Nine Sweet Ride

Day Three Hundred "It's a squaretangle!"

Day Three Hundred One My next car...

Day Three Hundred Two Fright Night at the Museum!

Day Three Hundred Three Trump made an unexpected visit to my nephew's birthday party - a day before his expected arrival at the Abq rally! He kept grabbing his, um, cat.

Day Three Hundred Four After visiting a Dia de Los Muertos art show, we were walking back to the car and rounded the corner to this fantastic offering, complete with barbershop-color candles, Red Man chew, cornmeal, collared greens, and black-eyed peas.

Day Three Hundred Five Rather than go trick-or-treating (no complaints here!), the boys opted to dress up as "bad fairies" (who apparently also have hands as feet...), and make their own Halloween goodies: ice cream in a bag and chocolate mice, and then topped off the festivities with dry ice ghost bubbles :)